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ragweed is an exhibition platform experimenting with poetic inquiry; rehearsing the strengths of poetry as a medium of care and positioning the poetic as the frontier for emancipatory politics
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TONY COKES: BLACK CELEBRATION
PRESS RELEASE
In “Black Celebration,” Cokes merges newsreel footage of riots in the 1960s with popular music and text commentary to create a counter-reading of rioting as a refusal to participate in the logic of capital, as an attempt to de-fetishize commodity through theft and gift.
More on Tony Cokes
PRESS RELEASE
In “Black Celebration,” Cokes merges newsreel footage of riots in the 1960s with popular music and text commentary to create a counter-reading of rioting as a refusal to participate in the logic of capital, as an attempt to de-fetishize commodity through theft and gift.
More on Tony Cokes
Feb 15 2019
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Still from "Black Celebration" (1988) Digital video, 17:11 duration, b/w.
Still from "Black Celebration" (1988) Digital video, 17:11 duration, b/w.